If you're not familiar with Ms. Marvel, also known as Carol Danvers: Welcome to my world, a place where book shelves are stacked with books with few illustrations. Carol Danvers is apparently half alien (species: Kree) and half human, and she is quite popular in the Marvel world, having at one point been named the "29th Sexiest Woman in Comics." She can fly, she has superhuman strength, she can absorb other forms of energy to magnify her strength (she can even absorb magic!), and she has also gone by the names of Binary and Warbird. And although her character was created as the Marvel counterpoint to D.C.'s Supergirl, Danvers -- Ms. Marvel, if you're nasty -- is a woman, thank you very much.

I mention all of this only because the Daily Mail is reporting that Emily Blunt and "Luther's" Ruth Wilson are up for the role, which is great even for those of us who know dupe about the comics, but appreciate that our Avengers films have lots of talented people involved. Both Blunt and Wilson fit that bill, and would make excellent people for Whedon to eventually kill off, although if Ms. Wilson were to get the role, I might be more afraid for Whedon.

It should be noted, for the record, that speculation from the Daily Mail is only slightly more reliable than the musings of your raving mailman.

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J.R. Paperstacks

"Welcome to my world, a place where book shelves are stacked with books with few illustrations."

Oh, Dustin: could you get any more pretentious? I find it amusing that a television blogger is sniffing his own farts about comic books.

daisy

Ms Marvel sounds pretty awesome, though. We seriously need a kickass female superhero already. Iam beautiful woman and I love good man…..inter racial romance is my dream… so Ijoined —blackwhitePlanet.С0M—–it's where to- connect withbeautiful and excellent people! He scrawles scattershot epithets on packages intended for people whose names sound vaguely foreign to his tiny prejudiced ears. I suppose in his head each package contains racial dilution and a job vacuum.

John W

Emily Blunt - Wasp

Ruth Wilson - Madame Hydra/Viper

logan

Why get the 29th sexiest? Was the top 28 too expensive or something?

Fredo

I thought the highlight of Ms. Danvers/Ms. Marvel's career was that she was the source for all the super-strength, flight powers and toughness of the X-Men's Rogue. Now that'd be an interesting scene: Anna Paquin v Emily Blunt in a mano-a-mano super-brawl.

Personally, I'd put Emily Blunt in as a potential Sue Richards in the "should happen but likely never will" reboot of the Fantastic Four.

Kip Hackman

I dunno, Mark Millar just became the head story guy for all the Marvel properties that Fox owns the rights to, one of which is Fantastic Four, so a reboot could very well happen, and with Millar in charge, it might be excellent.

And then falling "in love" and running away her rapist as well, I think. While the entire roster of the Avengers think this is perfectly kosher and not at all weird, unusual, and involving mind control.

sean

But they let Chris Claremont "fix" things within a few years. And he treated the character with great respect fixing things. Or as much as early 80s comics allowed.

'It should be noted, for the record, that speculation from the Daily Mail is only slightly more reliable than the musings of your raving mailman.'Much more racist though. In fact I have a racist raving mailman, and he's still less racist than the Daily Mail.

Milly

The Daily Heil as it is often referred to by us muesli eating, sandal wearing, amnesty international supporting, soy bean drinking, nestle boycotting, Guardianistas.

Miss Laaw-yuhr

This mailman situation sounds fascinating. Does he just wander down the street shouting random slurs?

He scrawles scattershot epithets on packages intended for people whose names sound vaguely foreign to his tiny prejudiced ears. I suppose in his head each package contains racial dilution and a job vacuum.

Long_Pig_Tailor

I think you've won for the day.

John Johnston

It's *Captain* Marvel.

Green Lantern

Despite what Marvel and DC want us to believe, it's "MS. Marvel". "CAPTAIN Marvel" is the guy in the red tights and white cape. "SHAZAM" is the wizard that gave Captain Marvel his powers.

The current descriptions are all confused crap. Yep. Signing off..

-Cranky old comic book fan (guy)

Idle Primate

i thought shazam was a word made from the first letter of each god's name and his/her attribute, which was then used as an incantation.

Green Lantern

It is.SolomonHerculesAtlasZeusAchillesMercury

And it is also the wizard's name.

Idle Primate

thanks, i was trying to think of who the letters stood for and all i got was a big fat brain fart

Kip Hackman

As that name change is a fairly recent (within the last few months) development, I think we can let it slide.

Renton

I think you should change "speculation" from your last sentence to "anything."

The details are close, but no cigar. Carol Danvers was a USAF Major who was caught up in an explosion caused by a Kree device and her genes fused with Captain Marvel's (who was full Kree). Whedon could very possibly turn Ms. Marvel into a secondary villain, considering she's one of the more powerful (not MOST powerful, mind) superheroes in the Marvel universe.

There's this on her Wikipedia page: "Ms. Marvel also plays a significant role in the limited series Secret Invasion against the alien shapeshifting Skrulls. She befriends the Skrull impostor of Captain Marvel and proves to him that she is not a Skrull by revealing intimate details about their life together." The Chitauri, from the last Avengers movie, is the Ultimate's version of the Skrulls.

I'm concerned about the rumors and allusions of the movies pointing towards the Superhuman Registration Act as a story arc. I think that is a topic that would do poorly on film at this point in time, because of the fact alone that it would have to reveal RDJ's charismatic Iron Man as being pro-registration and that may not go over well with some audiences. (Remember the whole "poison" arc in IM2? It bogged the entire movie down.)

I wonder where exactly Carol Danvers/Ms. Marvel will fit in with Avengers 2.

Idle Primate

not to mention we have a similar theme running through the x-men movies already

They're making an Ant-Man movie? They must have reached the bottom of the barrel a lot quicker than I thought they would.

Fredo

Ant-Man, directed by Edgar Wright.

At least it's not a reboot of Daredevil.

Quatermain

If it was done in that '70's grindhouse style like in that trailer that was floating around here a while back, a Daredevil reboot would be infinitely more worth watching than some tiny guy controlling ants with his mind.

celery

It's funny because Marvel has reached the bottom of the barrel and DC can barely handle skimming the top.